Motivated by a desire to evaluate and accelerate digitalisation opportunities in the global agricultural commodity industry, the Global Commodity Technology Association (GCTA) has launched with financial services industry veteran David Lehman as its Managing Director. The new international, not-for-profit
QuantConnect has launched a new competition, Alpha Five, allowing hedge funds to solicit “designer” Alphas from the crowd. QuantConnect, an open-source algorithmic trading platform, provides its community of over 85,000 quants access to financial data, cloud computing, and a coding
ACA Compliance Group (ACA), a provider of governance, risk, and compliance advisory services and technology solutions, has launched ComplianceAlpha 2.0. This ‘next-generation’ risk and compliance management platform helps global financial services firms stay one step ahead of regulators’ increasingly advanced technological
Style Analytics, a specialist in factor style analysis for investment professionals, has launched a Managed Services solution for qualified asset owners, called ‘Factors as a Service’, providing full support for data management and the building of factor style reports. Asset
Charles River Development and Tradeweb Markets, an operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets today announced an expansion of their collaboration to provide mutual clients with direct access to fixed income inventory and streamlined workflows from
Intercontinental Exchange, an operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, and MSCI, a provider of decision support tools and services for the global investment community, have expanded their existing relationship to include a
Options, a provider of colocation services for trading firms, today announced the deployment of next generation market data monitoring from Ixia, a Keysight business. The deployment of TradeVision at Options’ core data centre locations in Mahwah, NY4, NJ2, Carteret, and
Duet Group (Duet) has selected global single-source financial solutions provider, Apex Group Ltd. (Apex), to deliver full depositary and fund administration services for their liquid Africa strategies. Duet is a global investment holding company, founded in 2002, and a controlling
FlexTrade has launched FlexNOW, an out-of-the-box, broker neutral EMS to address the needs of hedge funds and mini-primes requiring a streamlined, multi-asset trading system at the click of a button. Designed to handle trading for equities, futures and options, FlexNOW
DBS Bank, a financial services group in Asia, has joined the LiquidX Partners network having completed a primary receivables transaction with one of its key relationship clients via the network in the second quarter of 2019. “Our partnership with DBS
